Word: latching
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...duty at the Soviet mission control in Tyuratam while a Russian stands by in Houston. The crews will also train together in both countries. Beyond that, the U.S. and Russia must make their craft capable of docking. The solution will be to equip them with compatible latch-rimmed rings. Clasped together like interlocking fingers, the first three pairs of latches to meet will provide a preliminary hookup, or "soft" dock. The eight other pairs will assure a final "hard" connection. Indeed, U.S. space officials are hoping that such a mechanism will be standard on all future spacecraft of both nations...
That kind of dislocation usually happens in the careers of slicker authors who latch on to popular problems or write characters that turn out to be "parts." But McMurtry is not slick. He tends, in fact, to create indelible people and brilliant set-piece scenes. Nor can it be said that success has deflected him from his sometimes invisible course. Unhappily, his books are constructed like tumbleweed. Moving On, the last one, was 794 arbitrary pages long, with no discernible direction. All My Friends Are Going To Be Strangers is less than half that length. It is acute, elegiac, funny...
...other now. I too had sung the chorus, "I'd rather talk to men than women" and "coeds are all parrots." We joined in the great putdown, even of each other, and then, being outside the Brotherhood of Men, had either to go it alone second class or latch on to a man who would give us his "success...
...Edward Gardiner Latch, a Methodist and long a pastor of the Nixon family, led the couple through a ten-minute ceremony that Tricia had prepared with Ed's approval. "To love," he began, "is to appreciate and cherish our beloved as a unique person, deep, extraordinary, exceptional. It is to visualize him or her as an equal yet complementing individual." As Eddie placed the diamond wedding band on Tricia's finger, she promised to "honor and comfort"-the "obey" was omitted. Eddie kissed his bride gently on the cheek. The rain started again just as the ceremony ended...
...Nixons, the contrast will be all the bleaker after the noise and gaiety of the wedding. Tricia and Eddie will exchange vows in a ten-minute service presided over by the Rev. Edward Gardiner Latch, a Methodist who is the Nixons' old family pastor and chaplain of the House of Representatives. While hardly venturesome as the new improvisational weddings go?Kahlil Gibran will not be recited?the service will be mildly ecumenical. There will be Episcopal (Ed is an Episcopalian) as well as Methodist and Catholic prayers...